The Beach Boys

Bibliography

David Leaf, The Beach Boys (1985), the first biography, is more reliable and musically astute than a later work by Steven Gaines, Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys (1986, reissued 1995). Timothy White, The Nearest Faraway Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience (1994), is a comprehensive, more-than-175-year social history of the Beach Boys and their ancestors. Back to the Beach: A Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys Reader (1997), assembles assorted classic articles on the musicians.